A tragic love reborn across nine lifetimes, with tangled bonds of passion between the immortal and demonic realms.
She is Changli, a God of War of the Ninth Heaven. Cast down to the mortal world for falling in love, she endures the suffering of nine lifetimes of reincarnation. In each life, she meets him, and every time, their story ends in tragedy.
He is Gu Wujiao. From a little beggar in the first life to a blind zither player in the ninth, he is always the tribulation fate has set for her.
In the first life, she takes a sword for him, but he forges a sword from her immortal bones. In the second, she saves him from danger, but he wipes out her entire family. In the third, she kills him with her own hands, hoping to sever her feelings...
Across nine lifetimes, she is wounded again and again by love. She loses and regains family and friendship, only to lose them once more. Each life brings her torment, yet she never loses hope.
Only in the ninth life, after she kills the blind zither player who was the only one ever to truly care for her, does she remember that he was the love she herself severed before descending to the mortal world.
She returns, walking up a stairway built from the bones of all nine lives. Outside the Southern Heaven Gate, the Celestial Emperor asks what she has learned. She takes out nine glass hearts, all shattered, and answers, “No love, no hate.”
And yet she leaves the zither player's bamboo flute behind in the mortal world, where it is left to rot.
This is an intensely tragic love story of passion and enmity, love and hate. Every lifetime brings a reversal, and every chapter holds a new mystery.
